Ted Kennedy: I'd like wife to take seat

NY Daily News ^ | May 22, 2008 | IAN BISHOP

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Ted Kennedy has made clear to confidants that when his time is up, he wants his Senate seat to stay in the family - with his wife, Vicki.

Multiple sources in Massachusetts with close ties to the liberal lion say his wife of 16 years has long been his choice to continue carrying the family flame in the Senate. Kennedy won the seat in 1962; his brother John held it from 1953 to 1960.

"There's no question that he'd like Vicki to continue in his seat," said one Massachusetts Democrat with ties to the Camelot clan who spoke to Kennedy recently, before his health crisis.

"She's smart, and smart politically."

The 54-year-old Victoria Reggie Kennedy, a former hotshot Washington lawyer, is a Louisiana native and the daughter of a politically active judge.

She was hailed for holding the family together when John F. Kennedy Jr. was killed in a plane crash in 1999.

By favoring his wife, Kennedy, 76, is bypassing his late brother Robert Kennedy's eldest son, Joe, a former congressman.

[Non-Sequitur]

People in Massachusetts are also throwing around Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, Rep. Ed Markey, and Rep. Patrick Kennedy of R.I. as possible successors.

That figures. Patty-boy tossing over Rhode Island for the bright lights of Massachusetts. And he'd probably win, too.

[indcons]

“Four legs are good; two legs are better.” (Animal Farm)

[G.Mason]

Need further proof that these traitorous poltical hacks think they rule as if by the "divine right of kings"?

Time to think about removing these pompous asses, destroying all vestiges of "Camelot", and restore our republic.

Μολὼν λαβέ

[gate2wire]

...gary studds, mike dukakis...

[Dr. Ursus]

No surprise here, They have become our rulers!

[indcons]

Very nice historical reference.

[Dahoser]

Don’t worry your Cape Cod Orcaness, the good leftists in Massachusetts will surely do your bidding as they’ve done so many times before.

[Gondring]

She’s going to have to win it. Massachusetts doesn’t appoint replacements to senate seats.

Actually, he just gave marching orders to the voters of MA.

[Kimmers]

If one is a lawyer this qualifies you to be a senator and of course an instant expert in everything. Now, just being a spouse of a senator qualifies one to b a senator. Wait a minute, she is also a lawyer so she is uber qualified !!!!!!

[The_Victor]

And the left calls the Bush family a “regime”.

[C210N]

She CANNOT become Sinator without following the proper procedures; come ON NOW Ted!

First, you have to formally abdicate your position and powers. Then, there is the crown ceremony, where your crown is lifted, with pomp and circumstance, carried over by the royal crown shifterer, and then lowered onto wifey's head.

[gridlock]

Hey, I got a great idea!

How about we have a election!!!

[gate2wire]

“Wait a minute, she is also a lawyer so she is uber qualified.”

And her father was a “politically active judge.”
Just what we need.

[Notasoccermom]

“he wants his Senate seat to stay in the family
Inherited titles, sigh. Royalty rules.”

Speaking of royalty did anyone else hear some CNN reporter call him “royalty”? My ears did a double take...

[gridlock]

Victoria Reggie Kennedy has suffered for her politics... Now it's our turn.

[Thermalseeker]

That is typical of how these politicians operate. The Senate seat does not belong to the people of the State of Massachusetts. It belongs to them and they can give it to anyone they want.

Actually, if this happens it'll be more reflective of the voters of Massachusetts. After all, it's the voters there that have sent the Captain of the Chappaquiddick Swim Team back to the Senate eight times.....

[gridlock]

Is Joan Kennedy still alive?

[Brilliant]

It’s all about Teddy.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Multiple sources in Massachusetts with close ties to the liberal lion

[ICE-FLYER]

What makes me uber-ill is that on the cry-baby-sympathy-emothial-knee-jerk-reaction she may get it and then get it again because of the same and we will be stuck again with another hyper liberal terror to the nation from the uber liberal hell known as Massachusetts. My parents, still imprisoned there, hate it and are already acting defeated about it.